Essay:Duce's political and policy views

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A list of policy ideas and political views supported by DuceMoosolini. Based on TheUmbilicalCordGuy's userpage (with some ideas taken verbatim). Subject to change.

Agriculture policy[edit]

  • End the ethanol fuel mandate.
  • GMOs are good.
  • Support local farms over factory mega-farms.
  • Bust agribusiness giants.

Civil liberties[edit]

Abortion[edit]

  • I'm in the "safe, legal, and rare" camp when it comes to abortion.
  • Pass a law federally defending reproductive rights nationwide. I'd like to see an Amendment too, but I know that ain't happening.
  • End the global gag rule.
  • Ban abortion after the third trimester unless critically necessary; it's not like third trimester abortions even really happen anyways.
  • Increase funding to Planned Parenthood.
  • Allow private health plans to cover abortion and contraceptives nationwide.
  • End the Hyde Amendment and the Helms Amendment.
  • Free-at-access abortion is a bridge too far for me.

Speech[edit]

  • I take a broad interpretation of what should be considered free speech.

Protest[edit]

  • Save for specific circumstances involving emergency services or another party's rights, there should be no geographical limitations on where people can protest.
  • Non-violent protests should never be met with violence or arrests by police. Protest organizers deliberately inciting violence prosecuted and given a fair trial.
  • It should never be illegal to use profanity against institutions or persons during protest.
  • All violence by police directed at protesters must be investigated by an independent party and prosecuted if necessary.
  • Flag burning/desecration should always be legal.

Journalism[edit]

  • Freedom of press is an essential value.
  • Pass a federal shield law to protect reporters from being compelled to reveal sources.
  • Ban federal and state governments from spying on journalists.

Expression[edit]

  • "Obscenity" laws should be repealed.
  • Unless actively advocating for violence, books should never be banned or barred from being published.
  • Books should never be banned from classrooms unless they are legit porn/erotica.
  • Revenge porn and child porn must be illegal and criminalized, both for production and possession.

Surveillance[edit]

  • End unwarranted domestic surveillance.
  • Abolish the NSA.
  • Gut the bloated and ineffective TSA; implement modified Israel-style security plans instead.
  • Do not require tech companies to create "backdoors" into their products.
  • Do not allow cops to search phones or computers without a warrant.
  • Do not allow cops to use thermal imaging without a warrant.
  • Pardon Snowden and other idealistic whistleblowers.

Consumer privacy[edit]

  • Require all companies to notify people if their data is breached or exposed to unauthorized parties.
  • Require companies to obtain permission before selling or sharing someone's data.
  • Ban companies from discriminating against people who exercise their privacy rights.
  • Require that companies only save the minimum data necessary to provide their services.
  • Create a consumer privacy enforcement agency like the one California has.
  • Allow consumers to sue companies over data breaches.
  • Allow consumers to sue companies over privacy violations.

Other[edit]

  • Legalize prostitution and all sex work between consenting adults.
  • Allow voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill.
  • Allow state contractors to boycott whomever they like.

Criminal justice policy[edit]

Capital punishment[edit]

  • I'm not against executing really heinous offenders, but too many innocent people end up on death row.
  • So, abolish.
  • Instead, place heinous and dangerous offenders in harsh supermax facilities like the ADX Florence.

Cops[edit]

  • Allow civilian recording of on-duty police officers at any time.
  • Remove qualified immunity for police officers.
  • Establish civilian review boards for all police departments.
  • Ban stop-and-frisk.
  • Ban racial profiling.
  • Ban no-knock raids.
  • Use special prosecutors in police misconduct investigations.
  • Mandate increased de-escalation training for all police departments.
  • Create a national database of officers responsible for misconduct and ban other departments from hiring them.
  • Remove military equipment from police departments.

Prisons[edit]

  • End cash bail.
  • End mandatory minimums and drastically reduce sentences for most non violent offenses.
  • End non-unanimous jury convictions nationwide.
  • End the use of private prisons; transfer all prisoners to federal and state facilities once new ones are built to accommodate them.
  • Build more prisons to end overcrowding. Refurbish existing prisons to ensure humane living standards.
  • Ban the practice of making prisoners pay for amenities.
  • Respect religious rights of prisoners: allow access to religious texts and clergy.

Drug policy[edit]

  • Decriminalize marijuana for personal use on the federal level.
  • Pardon people for nonviolent drug offenses.
  • Provide mandatory counseling and addiction services instead of sending people to prison.

Enemy combatants[edit]

  • Never ever summarily execute captured enemy combatants.
  • Ban the use of torture against any captured enemy.
  • Do not send captured enemies to other countries to circumvent torture bans.
  • Mandate that all enemy combatants be treated humanely, regardless of whether they are lawful or unlawful.

Other[edit]

  • End civil asset forfeiture.
  • Decriminalize homelessness.

Economic and financial policy[edit]

Overall[edit]

  • I am a staunch anti-communist'.
  • I support a market economy in which federal and local governments provide extensive welfare safety nets and control certain industries.

Welfare policy[edit]

  • Keep Social Security alive.
  • Expand food stamp eligibility.
  • Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Corporate finance[edit]

  • Pass a 2% tax on corporate stock buybacks.
  • Require corporations to compile and release reports disclosing:
    • Total annual revenue and percentage kept as profit,
    • Government contracts and payments,
    • Tax breaks,
    • Total employee compensation as percentage of revenue,
    • Total executive compensation as percentage of revenue,
    • CEO compensation as percentage of revenue,
    • Total non-executive/employee shareholder compensation as percentage of revenue.

Personal finance[edit]

  • Establish a free, publicly-run credit reporting agency.
  • Implement the Sanders/Cortez plan to cap credit card interest at 15%, but allow interest rates to rise for 18 months if necessary.
  • Reestablish the Postal Savings System to provide public, low-cost banking services through Post Offices.
  • Discharge or substantially reduce all debts during bankruptcy proceedings. No more BS permanent debt for student loans and mortgages.

Taxation[edit]

  • Create a free public online tax filing and preparation system with maximum returns and an option for automatic tax filing.
  • Zero income tax below $30,000
  • Establish a wealth tax like the one proposed by Senator Warren.
    • 2% wealth tax on households with net worths of $50 million and over.
    • 3% wealth tax on households with net worths of $1 billion and over.
  • Hike the estate tax on millionaires and billionaires in accordance with Senator Sanders' plan.
    • 45% between $3.5 and $10 million.
    • 50% between $10 million and $50 million.
    • 55% between $50 million and $1 billion.
    • 77% for $1 billion and over.
  • Increase capital gains and corporate taxes.
    • Set maximum capital gains tax rate back to 40%.
    • Set maximum corporate tax rate back to 52%.
  • Don’t tax lawsuit winnings.

Currency[edit]

  • Pass a law to remove the penny from circulation and direct the US Mint to stop making them.
  • Make it legal for businesses and individuals to melt down pennies for their metals or sell them off to businesses that will.


Education policy[edit]

  • Fund universal preschool.

K-12[edit]

  • Stop relying on property taxes to fund public schools.
  • Provide tutors for under-performing students.
  • Provide free breakfast and lunch for students at all income levels and cancel student lunch debt. End "lunch shaming".
  • Move to a 9-to-5 school day to match parents' schedules.
  • Pay teachers properly, like at least $50k a year.
  • Expand teacher residency programs to give new educators experience teaching under a mentor.
  • Every school should have a counselor, nurse, and social worker.
  • Provide personal computers for students to use during the school year.
  • End standardized testing.
  • Increase sex education.
  • Stop subsidizing private schools.
  • Make sure that evolution, vaccines, and climate science are taught in all schools.
  • Decriminalize truancy.
  • These courses should be required by the end of high school:
    • Personal economics.
    • Macroeconomics.
    • Civics and government.
    • Comparative government.
    • Computers/typing.
    • International issues and relations.

Higher education[edit]

  • Tuition-free public colleges and trade schools.
  • Cancel student loan debt for people going to public colleges.
  • Increase college mentorship programs.

Environmental policy[edit]

  • Institute a carbon tax on businesses.
  • Require coal plants to transition to natural gas.
  • Fund carbon sequestration.
  • Fund ocean trash clean-up efforts.
  • Fund the creation of wave-energy-conversion power plants.
  • Fund the EPA.
  • Always publish climate science data.
  • Build more nuclear power plants.
  • Fund the creation of wind farms throughout the Midwest.

Election policy[edit]

Voters[edit]

  • Institute automatic voter registration nationwide.
  • I'm honestly fine with voter ID laws.
  • Offer mail ballots to all voters.
  • Offer early in-person voting to all voters in the week prior to Election Day.

Procedures[edit]

  • Election Day should be a federal holiday.
  • Have congressional district lines drawn by a nonpartisan entity.
  • Abolish the Electoral College; elect presidents with a ranked-choice system.
  • Improve elections cybersecurity.
  • Invalidate state laws that discourage or prevent recounts. Every voter has the right to have their vote counted.
  • Pass laws to prevent state legislatures from interfering with the rightful selection of Electors.

Eligibility[edit]

  • People who've been a naturalized citizen for, say, 20 years should be eligible for the presidency.
  • A past crime should not invalidate people from running for office as long as it was not a felony, violent, financial, or sexual crime.
  • Citizens naturalized at birth should be unequivocally announced as eligible for the presidency.

Term limits[edit]

  • Limit Senators to two terms and Representatives to six terms.

Foreign policy[edit]

  • Focus on soft power. Countries are more likely to listen to their friends and trading partners. No war or threats needed.
  • Increase staffing for the State Department and create diplomatic training programs and scholarships for university students.
  • Close foreign US military bases except for the ones in East Asia and Eastern Europe. Basically, if the base is not protecting a threatened ally, then it should go.
  • Join the International Criminal Court.

Africa[edit]

  • Recognize Somaliland as an independent state.
  • Cut off Uganda from security aid.

Asia[edit]

  • Strengthen US-Indian relations, especially when it comes to economics and countering China.
  • Strengthen economic and strategic ties with Vietnam.
  • Announce America's consent for limited Japanese rearmament against China.
  • Increase sanctions on Burma for its unacceptable persecution of the Rohingya and military coup.

Europe[edit]

  • Continue aid to Ukraine with the objective of returning to pre-2014 borders.
  • Negotiate a nice trade deal with the British post-Brexit.
  • Increase energy exports to Europe.

Middle East[edit]

  • End support for the Saudi War in Yemen and start distancing ourselves from them in general.
    • In fact, ban the sale of weapons to the Saudis.
  • Use aid money as leverage against Israel to make it improve its treatment of Palestinians.
    • Let US citizens practice BDS against Israel, as is their right.
  • Strengthen strategic ties with Jordan, especially in the realm of counter-terrorism.
  • Negotiate a new Iran Deal.

North America[edit]

  • Normalize relations with Cuba, with the exception of arms sales.
  • Invest heavily in Mexico's and Central America's economies and infrastructure to help them modernize and reduce poverty.
  • Strengthen economic and strategic ties with Brazil.
  • Continue opposition to Maduro's criminal government in Venezuela.

Foreign affairs[edit]

  • Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan deserve to remain independent.
  • Kosovo should be independent.
  • With the things the way they are, it might be for the best if Scotland leaves the UK and Ireland reunifies.
  • Focus on building trust and ending violence between Israel and Palestine. Eventual two-state or perhaps Bosnia-style one state solution in the far future.
  • Gibraltar and the Falklands should stay British.
  • The Kurdish people deserve their own nation-state.
  • Grant Kashmir pseudo-independence as a UN-mandated buffer state between India and Pakistan.
  • Indonesia should probably dissolve.
  • Outer Manchuria is rightful Chinese clay and Russia should give it back.
  • Poland and Hungary are going to shit.
  • Turkey is going to shit.
  • Chile replacing its constitution is a great thing and I hope it goes well for them.

Government[edit]

  • Offer statehood and representation to DC, Guam, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico.
  • Increase Supreme Court to 13 seats in accordance with the number of federal appeals circuits.
  • Grant all Indigenous Nations a delegate seat in the House of Representatives. At least Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw, Kiowa, Navajo, Sioux, and Apache should have voting members.
  • Automatically remove legislators who fail to attend more than 50% of votes in a year.
  • Implement open government, in which all government documents and proceedings are accessible to the public.
  • Ban monetary lobbying
  • Bring back the 60-vote rule for Supreme Court Justice confirmations.
  • Remove references to God from currency, federal buildings, and the Pledge of Allegiance.
  • Abolish the National Day of Prayer.

Gun policy[edit]

  • To be clear, I am pro-2A but I do believe there are common-sense policies which can help keep people safe while not infringing on constitutional rights.
  • Mandate that all gun owners be required to have a federal license which includes technical competency and mental health standards.
  • Mandate universal background checks for gun purchases.
  • Mandate required waiting periods for gun purchases of at least one week.
  • Pass gun-violence restraining order statutes nationwide.
  • Prosecute people whose guns are used in mass killings if it's found they did not secure them.
  • Ban high-capacity clips for civilians.
  • Mandate that all gun sales be registered with the government.
  • Mandate that gun owners purchase liability insurance.
  • Implement an optional federal buyback program for firearms. Prices should be attractive.
  • Encourage responsible gun ownership for minority groups like blacks, Latinos, and Muslims.

Health policy[edit]

Health issues[edit]

  • Crack down on the alternative medicine industry.

Healthcare industry[edit]

  • Enact Medicare for All.
  • Medicaid is good for the economy; expand eligibility.
  • Crack down on copyright abuse by pharma corporations.
  • Ban prescription drug advertising.
  • Mandate that drug companies use a cost-based pricing system instead of manipulating customers.
  • Allow the government to negotiate drug prices.
  • The government should control pricing for crucial rare drugs.
  • Ensure adequate funding of the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
  • Expand medical school loan-forgiveness programs.
  • Lower barriers to immigration for foreign-trained physicians and allow them to practice.
  • Legalize and support telehealth and remote patient monitoring.

Immigration policy[edit]

  • Abolish ICE.
  • End family separation policies.
  • Support private sponsorship of refugees.
  • Incentivize foreign doctors and healthcare professionals to settle in the rural US.
  • Establish a pathway to citizenship plan for non-criminal illegals.
  • Remove limits on the number or "quality" of immigrants; only bar criminals from entry.
  • In general, make it easier to legally become a US citizen.

Infrastructure policy[edit]

Transportation[edit]

  • Fix the highways.
  • Fix the inland waterways, dams, and canals.
  • Increase incentives for cities to create public transportation systems.
  • Build a high-speed rail system to connect the major US cities.

Telecommunications[edit]

  • Fix the electrical infrastructure.
  • Build fiber-optic internet cables to provide fiber internet access nationwide.
  • Restore net neutrality.
  • Create a public internet service provider.

Housing[edit]

  • Build low-income housing.
  • Provide incentives on the state and federal levels for communities which allow more residential constructions.

Labor policy[edit]

  • Require businesses to publish their salary ranges for each position for all applicants.
  • Require businesses to provide paid leave for full- and part-time employees during the birth of a child or sick/dead family member.
  • Require businesses to pay salaried employees time-and-a-half for overtime hours. Required overtime hours should be more than 40 in a week and more than 8 in a day.
  • Part-time and full-time hourly pay must be the same rate for the same work.
  • All employees must have the right to request flexible working hours, with businesses required to explain any denials.
  • All employees must be guaranteed a paid 30 minute lunch if they work more than 5 hours in a day. Employees must be fully relieved of duty.
  • All employees must be guaranteed one paid 10 minute break every two hours. Employees must be fully relieved of duty.
  • All employees must be guaranteed double pay on federal holidays.
  • Full-time employees must be guaranteed two weeks of paid vacation per year after working at least 6 months.
  • Require businesses to provide seating for employees who remain in one area for more than half of their shift (this means cashiers).

Unions[edit]

  • Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
  • Allow closed-shops and secondary strikes/boycotts.
  • Crack down on union-busting.

Military policy[edit]

General (not generals)[edit]

  • Raise the enlistment age to 25.
  • Drastically cut military spending by reducing ground forces and relying on air and naval forces as deterrents.
  • Cut the budget even more in order to force the military to reform its own bloated bureaucracy.
  • Never, ever, order the military to conduct an operation unless it has devised a clear and realistic strategy on how to both win and withdraw.

The Army[edit]

  • The Army should be a mechanized/armored land-based hammer with few other roles beyond rear echelon support.
    • During peacetime, the Army should maintain generally maintain readiness but do little else.
    • The Army should not be an occupation force. It should be used to win defensive wars and then withdraw.
  • Eliminate almost all Army bases overseas in favor of keeping them stateside. The Army should be the heavyweights we bring in to an ongoing conflict, not rapid response.
  • Massed airborne forces seem to have only a niche utility nowadays and should be reduced.
  • It's time to refocus the Army away from counterinsurgency tactics.
  • Drastically cut down the Army Special Forces.
  • Increase funding for the Army Corps of Engineers and let them get about repairing this nation's crumbling infrastructure.

The Navy[edit]

  • The Navy is still essential for transporting military assets and waging war at sea. But its purpose should not be "power projection" by just sitting around.
    • That means ditching the "global presence" strategy. It has overstretched the Navy and failed to deter conflict.
  • Carriers are no longer the queens of the seas, and they should be reduced but not eliminated.
    • This means cancelling future Ford-class carriers and designing a smaller alternative.
    • That also means scrapping many of the Nimitz carriers.
  • For the surface, the Navy should instead focus on missile frigates and destroyers, which are harder to find and still have major firepower.
  • Missile submarines are also a good asset and even harder to find than destroyers.
  • The Navy must ensure that its seamen are well rested. Too many humiliating accidents have been caused by overwork.

The Marines[edit]

  • General David H. Berger's Force Design 2030 plan is a good starting point for reforming the bloated and politcized Marines.
  • The Marines should return to their old focus of smaller-scale amphibious landings. It should not be a second Army.
    • That means scrapping all but one or two of the Navy's flat-deck amphibious assault ships in favor of much smaller models.
    • That also means drastically cutting the Marines' air arm, which serves no unique purpose.
  • The Marines should also cease their "global response force" objective. That means closing many overseas bases.

The Air Force[edit]

  • The Air Force still serves an essential role, but many of its bases can be closed.
  • The F-35 should be phased in.

War criminals[edit]

  • Arrest all American war criminals and send them to be tried before the International Criminal Court.
  • Allow soldiers abroad who misbehave to be tried by said foreign government.

Veterans and lobbying[edit]

  • Increase funding for the VA Department.
  • Ban military leaders from lobbying positions for at least 10 years after they retire.
  • Force defense contractors to be transparent about what they're lobbying for and why.

Social policy[edit]

General[edit]

  • Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
  • Replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the federal and state level.
  • Black Lives Matter is good.
  • Remove Confederate statues, replace with respectable Southerners like Dr. King, Rosa Parks, and Jimmy Carter. Heritage, not hate, right?

LGBT+[edit]

  • Allow LGBT+ adoption.
  • Ban conversion therapy.
  • Provide an "other" option for gender on government documents.
  • Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, but do not exempt "small businesses".
  • Disallow gay panic and trans panic legal defenses for any crimes.
  • End the ban on trans people serving in the military.
  • No trans bathroom bans.
  • Add gender identity and sexual orientation to all non-discrimination legislation.
  • None of that "parody marriage" bullshit.


Trade policy[edit]

  • Pro-free trade in most cases.
  • Ban weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
  • Lift the trade and travel embargo on Cuba.